For close to a decade, researchers have been trying to improve the performance of plastic semiconductors to the level of amorphous silicon—the semiconductor used in low-cost electronics such as photovoltaic cells for solar ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
May 4, 2006
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Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have engineered nanoscale materials that are blood compatible using heparin, an anticoagulant. The heparin biomaterials have potential for use as medical devices and in medical ...
Bio & Medicine
May 4, 2006
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Scientists from Philips Research and the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) have for the first time fabricated arrays of molecular diodes on standard substrates with high yields. The molecular diodes are as thin as ...
Nanophysics
May 4, 2006
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More scientific data has been collected in the last year alone than in all previous years since science began, a Johns Hopkins University scientist says.
Other
May 4, 2006
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Aircraft facing low-visibility conditions have traditionally been dependent on ground-based navigational aids to guide them to a safe landing. Even then, there were limits on the visibility conditions under which pilots were ...
Engineering
May 4, 2006
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Like an interplanetary spaceship carrying passengers, meteorites have long been suspected of ferrying relatively young ingredients of life to our planet.
Space Exploration
May 4, 2006
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A historic NASA wind tunnel is helping test the prototype of a new, more fuel-efficient aircraft design. Boeing Phantom Works, St. Louis, has partnered with NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and the U.S. Air ...
Space Exploration
May 4, 2006
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers say the use of switchgrass could help break U.S. dependence on fossil fuels and curb costly transportation costs.
Environment
May 4, 2006
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High-end audio producer Bang & Olufsen has introduced its first wireless stereo system for home use in North America.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 4, 2006
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NASA officials say the agency's chief of strategic communications, Joe Davis, is leaving to take a position with a private sector public affairs firm.
Space Exploration
May 4, 2006
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